Taranaki Wars 2018With Rob ShirleyAfter some years of playing a day of Early War and then a day of Late War, this year Alistair decided that it would be seven rounds of 850 points Late War. Still on 4x4 tables. And with the V4 rules as set out in the V4 1939-41 and 1944-5 rule book, and the Lessons from the Front from October 2017. Only Tank or Mechanised lists were allowed to be played. The army had to have a HQ and at least three other units.

Just to mix things up some more, four of the missions were from the Quick Missions of Team Yankee. As this event is easy going we resolved most things in an email debate and then Al called what ever we had missed as the issues arose. Thanks to Kim Styles, Julian Hannam and Alistair Mundell for supplying the tables.

Just thirteen of us played this year, over the years (counting backwards) it’s been 12, 20, 20 and 10. This year we were from Hamilton, New Plymouth, Rural Taranaki and Whanganui. With just one player being new to the event.

The missions went:

Saturday:Recon in Force, Gauntlet, Breakthough, Free for All

Sunday:Repeat the first three.

Seven games, and in each one, the result was 8-1. I was on the “1-end” twice on the Saturday, so did fairly well submarining after that.

My Army was from Red Bear. HQ of T34/85, Combat Pls of 5 x Valentines and 5x T34/76 with three upgraded to T34/85. Weapons Pls of 4 x ZIS-2 and 6 x 82mm Mortars with an ObserverSupportt Pl of 3 x BA64

I faced 3 x Soviets Tank, two with SU 100’s; 2 x US Armour; 1x US Armoured Rifles and 1 x German Mechanised.

The final results of the 3 games (all hard fought) but with a huge amount of fun and enthusiasm, which is what v4 is all about.

The results were:

Results

Glen Horsman

German

1

48

Julian Harkness

Soviet

2

44

Rob Shirley

Soviet

3-

42

Kim Styles

Soviet

3-

42

Robert Torrance

German

5

39

Alistar Mundell

Soviet

6

37

Julian Emmett

US

7

34

Julian Hannam

Poland

8-

28

Garry Amudsin

US

8-

28

Dougal Hannam-Williams

German

10

27

Peter Thompson

US

11

22

Karl Muskee

Poland

12

15

Savvas Rigas

US

13

8

As usual a fun time, all of us travellers stayed at the same motel. Bring on the Weekend of the 3rd Sunday of February in 2018. I make that 16-17 February 2018.~Rob